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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday August 30, 2014 23:18 by Chris Irwin 2 comments (last - thursday september 04, 2014 23:28) 4 images
Three Rivers Earth First! had me to go Ferguson and do a reportback. This is it.
This is a community grieving. Not just over the murder of a single unarmed young man, though that was terrible enough. What I learned painting stencils with the children of that neighborhood today was this did not occur in some back alley. Where they shot him 6 times was right in the middle of a street, surrounded by multi level apartment complexes filled with children. If the shots did not get their attention the 4 hours they left the body in the middle of the street did. read full story / add a comment
Dublin, 11 Sep: Resisting Injustice. Memorial evening for Gerry Conlon in support of Chelsea Manning
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday August 29, 2014 08:28 by Private Manning Family Fund 1 image
Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four, victim of the one of the most serious miscarriages of justice in recent history, devoted much of his life on his release from prison to campaigning on behalf of other prisoners and highlighting human rights abuses worldwide, including the imprisonment and torture of WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Join us in Dublin to remember Gerry Conlon and raise funds for Chelsea Manning's family. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday August 27, 2014 19:51 by Bobby 1 image
Bodies clash with beauty norms and enforced binary gender codes. Bodies are at war with disease. Bodies face imprisonment, and some constantly struggle for freedom of movement. However, bodies are spaces of resistance and assertiveness too! read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday August 27, 2014 19:33 by Anarchist Black Cross 2 comments (last - friday august 29, 2014 18:36) 1 image
Women harassed for trying to access abortion, people expelled from the cities and villages, others dragged through the courts for resistance to the plundering of the earth, immigrants deported for 'alien blood', workers attacked for union activities, and tenants activists burned in the forest. Activities of developers, employers, nationalists; often backed by the police, the prosecution and the authorities. All of these issues will be discussed during the Festival days antywięziennych. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Tuesday August 26, 2014 15:05 by Woodland League 1 comment (last - wednesday august 27, 2014 13:48) 1 image
Press Release - Woodland League The public amenity forest at Gougane Barra, co Cork has been clear-felled for no good reason. This is the claim of an internationally renowned Irish tree-scientist and a number of Irish NGOs. In January 2014, Coillte, the Irish Forestry Board, contended that ‘sudden oak-death’ (Phytophtera ramorum) had infested the veteran larch trees in the forest and that urgent clear-felling was essential. Documentary evidence purporting to support this assertion dated July 2013 has been branded tenuous at best by Diana Beresford-Kroeger the renowned Irish tree-scientist who saw no sign of the disease while filming in the forest in August of that year. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Tuesday August 26, 2014 09:37 by Bernie Wright 1 comment (last - wednesday august 27, 2014 01:34) 2 images
WAKE UP COVENEY…..STOP THE LYING, -WE DO SNARE 6000 BADGERS A YEAR RANTINGS FROM OUR AGRICULTURE Minister in the video below "What we are continuing to do is have a humane and targeted cull of badgers which does not involve snares or anything like that. It involves trapping and catching badgers and putting them down in as humane a way as we can." EVEN BADGERS KNOW WHAT A SNARE IS! EVEN BADGERS KNOW WHAT A SNARE IS! SEE THE MINISTER LYING NOW …LINK HERE BELOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oRSnDcJOxo&feature=you...1m52s Snaring IS the method used to trap badgers by the Department of Agriculture despite the Minister’s outrageous attempt to deny and conceal this fact. Who is he trying to hoodwink? The AOHS believes that the method of capture is a barbaric wire snare which holds the helpless badger in excruciating pain until it is dispatched by gunshot or clubbed to death the next morning at the earliest as some accounts by farmers have revealed. That is if the badger has not been strangled beforehand by the snares wire. When nursing female badgers are snared and shot, their cubs are left to starve to death underground. The DOA refuse to allow a period for lactating badgers to raise their young without risk of torture" read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Monday August 25, 2014 23:37 by Anti-fracking 1 image
The Mayo Advertiser carried an article on fracking on Aug 22nd. See below. Mayo needs to wake up to the reality that the controversial method of extracting natural gas from rock — known as fracking — could soon become a major issue in the county. That is according to two local Sinn Féin representatives who this week urged the public and political representatives to call on the Government to make its position on fracking clear because a number of Mayo townlands in the Swinford and Charlestown areas have long been flagged as possible fracking sites. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday August 24, 2014 06:54 by fred 5 comments (last - thursday october 30, 2014 07:51) 1 image 1 video file
Too often in these complex times we get just one side of geopolitical events. And a hugely oversimplified colouring book US version depicting who we are supposed to hate and who we are supposed to align with along with emotive reasons for doing so such as "humanitarian aid" or "bringing democracy" or "preventing a massacre by an evil regime" or "weapons of mass destruction" etc etc. A captive media carries this simplistic and cynical message into every home until we are repeating it to each other in the pubs, during coffee breaks at work and on internet chat fora, twitter and facebook. Rarely do we get to hear the alternative to this manufactured consent and cynical propaganda from the other side. So here it is, the truth behind what is going on in Ukraine from Russian adviser to Putin, Sergei Glaziev read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Saturday August 23, 2014 21:45 by Cian Riordan 1 image
Please attend the important March for Marriage at City Hall in Dublin August 24 at 3pm Sharp. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / news report Friday August 22, 2014 19:30 by Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) 24 comments (last - sunday september 07, 2014 19:16) 1 image
Debbie Vincent, long-term animal rights campaigner, comrade, and friend to many within the movement, was sentenced on 17th April to 6 years in prison, after a five-week long trial at Winchester Crown Court. Further to time in prison, she was given an Anti-Social Behavioural Order for an additional 5 years after her release. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / other press Friday August 15, 2014 09:19 by Gary Boyne 1 image
The PEOPLES NEWS contains commentary on developments in the EU from an Irish and democratic perspective read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday August 14, 2014 22:56 by IPSC 1 image
As Israel appears to be winding down – at least temporarily – its slaughter, and Gaza starts to disappear from the news, we believe it is important that we not allow the issue of Palestine to slip off the public radar. Now is the time to reinforce one of the key demands of the Palestinian liberation movement – “Boycott Israeli Goods”. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday August 10, 2014 14:47 by An Spréach 1 image 1 video file
Today as part of the tactic to highlight the housing crisis in Ireland, members of An Spréach and D8HC carried out a banner drop on Charlemont Street Flats, and Richmond Street. read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday August 09, 2014 18:14 by None 3 comments (last - sunday august 10, 2014 22:23) 10 images
Belcoo was awoken at 5 in the morning on the July 21st to the invasion of Tamboran. It wasn't until later that morning that the frackers had the 'courtesy' to send local residence notice of their occupation of a nearby quarry. Immediately a demonstration outside the quarry gates was organized for that evening. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / event notice Saturday August 09, 2014 00:05 by Sharon. 1 comment (last - friday september 05, 2014 19:14) 2 images
Bundoran , Donegal , Saturday 30th August 2014 , 3PM. 33rd Annual Hunger Strike Commemoration , East End, Bundoran , Saturday 30th August 2014. read full story / add a comment
wicklow / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday August 07, 2014 00:23 by pbp 3 comments (last - monday august 18, 2014 14:31) 1 image 1 video file
Greystones Harbour was opened to the public almost two years ago, in November 2012. The marina opened for summer 2013. However, despite written agreements and promises from the developer, the commercial fishers of Greystones have been refused access to the harbour and promised berths or moorings have not been offered to us. We are today entering the harbour and landing freshly caught fish, against regulations, as a protest against this continued exclusion from the harbour, which only two weeks ago included the removal of mooring cleats from the harbour’s north pier in order to prevent boats tying up. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday August 07, 2014 00:06 by ipsc 1 comment (last - sunday august 10, 2014 20:52) 1 image
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION - “It is time for freedom and justice for Palestine" The IPSC has put out a call to make the 5th protest for Gaza to take place on a Saturday in Dublin a national demonstration. Details are below. As the death toll in Israel’s latest onslaught on Gaza surpasses 1,800, actions have been called around Ireland taking place this week and next. It’s important that as many people as possible turn out to show their solidarity with the Palestinians people under attack, their opposition to this latest round of brutal attacks on Gaza, and their anger at political inaction and media misreporting of the issue. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday August 06, 2014 18:32 by Anti-imperialist Front Ireland 1 image
The US is facilitating a bloodbath in Novorossiya. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday August 05, 2014 14:09 by Campaign for Skellig 1 image
The filming of scenes for Star Wars: Episode VII began yesterday on Skellig Michael in Co Kerry. Many have expressed outrage at the underhanded way in which this information was kept from the Irish public until a few days ago. The Irish Independent has learnt that when negotiations began over six months ago it was feared if news of the proposed filming leaked out it could attract opposition from conservation groups. Also, At a time when Gaza is suffering a genocide at the hands of the Israeli government, the Irish government has underhandedly permitted Disney, (a company which is on every boycott list of companies which support Israel), who acquired Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4.05 billion (wiki), to come into Ireland and film on one of our most sacred and ancient sites. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday August 04, 2014 13:39 by fred 1 image
the NCT was brought in to inject life into the flagging motor sales industry in celtic tiger days, and to create lucrative business opportunites for some lucky people who happened to well connected and in the loop. It's all a bit of a money making scam, which targets the poor disproportionally, gives gardai draconian powers of seizure. Chronic delays in the test system, not to mention reports of corrupt practices make the thing a nightmare for the less well off trying to keep a vehicle on the road in order to increase their chances of finding work. Just another obstacle put in the way of the poorer classes which serves to limit their possibilities and their movements. read full story / add a comment |
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